I have spent a wonderful evening as Fr Damian Cassidy O.Carm taught us about the Paschal Triduum on the understanding that from the beginning of Mass on Maundy Thursday, there was no blessing and dismissal until the end of the Easter Vigil, making everything in between a single liturgical act. He worked in today's Gospel for the Annunciation, in which Our Lady does not ask "Why?", but "How?"
Bringing us to this afternoon's ceremony in Canterbury. Archbishop Richard Moth found himself having to read out, ostensibly from Isaiah, that "a young woman shall conceive", a recent yet dated piece of hokum on which see, initially, here. And the passage from Hebrews 10 was omitted completely, when it has never been more urgent to proclaim the futility of the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant. Christians must resist to the utmost any attempted restoration of the Temple cult.
Good on you for daring to make that last point.
ReplyDeleteNo Christian should wish for the restoration of animal sacrifice, and Jesus Himself foretold the destruction of the Temple. In 363, Julian the Apostate tried to rebuild it, but it kept blowing up and catching fire, soon after which he died. He was succeeded by Jovian, who restored the Christian Empire, but there has been a continuous, if usually almost invisible, refusal of the recapitulation in Jesus Christ and His Church of all three of the Old Israel, Hellenism, and the Roman Empire, by those who cleaved instead to the previously normative practices that have most lately been detailed in the Epstein Files.
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